Author: Anostazija Tamosaitiene and Antanas Tamosaitis
Lithuanian Sashes is an academic work complete with bibliography, index and symbol keys for various sash motifs. As part of their documentation for the book, the authors closely examined several thousand ancient thousand were reproduced in the book, for the greater part in the original colour. To date this is the only existing book about sashes in English. In writing the book the authors explored various sources as well as closely studying numerous sashes they had brought with them from Lithuania. Extensive use was made of drawings of sash motifs, photographs, sash motif al- bums, newspaper articles as well as periodicais specifically devoted to sashes. In ancient Lithuania, a sash constituted a symbolic gift, especially at weddings. The tradition of sash weaving has been preserved to this present day, not only in Lithuania but in all countries where Lithuanian families have established themselves.
HC/216 pages/Color and B&W photos
